History Main / NobodyTouchesTheHair

* Galadriel in ''Literature/TheHistoryOfMiddleEarth'' as Feanor (one of the [[TheAce greatest]] Elves ever) is captivated by her light of her golden locks but... "He begged three times for a tress, but Galadriel would not give him even one hair." Jump cut a good many centuries to ''Literature/TheFellowshipOfTheRing'': Gimli (a rustic Dwarf) boldy asks for the same thing and Galadriel '''averts this''' affectionately giving Gimli ''three strands'' of her hair, so why did Galadriel cold shoulder the High King of the Ñoldor from touching her hair but happily gave a [[BloodKnight battle hungry Dwarf]] three locks? Likely because Galadriel ''knew'' Gimli would treasure her hair out of goodness of his heart, while Feanor only saw her hair as prize and symbol of power thus she was protective. Also because Galadriel had the ability to psychically see into the minds of others, and there is definitely subtextual implication that Faenor had [[IncestSubtext less than pure intentions towards his niece]]. Faenor was brilliant, but he was also a creep.

* Brook in ''Manga/OnePiece'' will try to prevent enemy combatants from contact with his afro at any cost. His motivation is one of the most serious examples of this trope: being a [[DemBones reanimated skeleton]], he considers it his only visible trait still the same from when he was still alive, and it won't grow back if it gets cut off. Why is this so important? Because his sole reason for staying alive after coming back, waking up alone and on a ghost ship and staying there for ''decades'' with no hope of escape, is to return to his friend [[TeamPet Laboon]], whom his crew left behind when they began their journey. Thus, he protects his afro to ensure that when the time comes, Laboon will be able to recognize him, and he takes the protectiveness to such an extent that he loses his very first real fight in the series in order to avoid damage to his hair.

-->You can look all you want/ But don't touch the hair!

* ''VideoGame/GloryOfHeracles'' for DS: Axios will sometimes say "Not the hair!" when being attacked.

* Motor Ed's EstablishingCharacterMoment in WesternAnimation/KimPossible is him getting his mullet professionally done, only to throw a fit when the stylist cuts it a fraction of an inch. His StartOfDarkness, in fact, started when an employer told him he had to cut his hair - [[DisproportionateRetribution causing him to jump ship from being an engineer to become a supervillain instead.]]

* ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'''s Ryougi Shiki is not fond of anyone even thinking about touching her hair. [[AllThereInTheManual According to Nasu and Takeuchi in an interview in the movie pamphlets]], Kaname, her older brother, was the only one she actually allowed to touch and fix her hair. Not even [[LoveInterest Mikiya]] was allowed this privilege.

* Empress Elisabeth of Austria was extremely proud of her famously long and beautiful hair, and allowed nobody but her court hairdresser to handle it, and even then only with gloves. The empress intensely disliked any of the natural effects of hairstyling (such as fallen hairs) and demanded that her hairdresser show her the comb with the fallen hairs after every brushing, and she would become so upset and angry when she saw them that her hairdresser began stealthily hiding them under her apron to protect herself from the empress' wrath.

* ''VideoGameSamAndMaxHitTheRoad'': Conroy Bumpus takes offense to insults about his hair, having his Dragon beat up the titular heroes when Max makes one wisecrack too many.

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** Lor'Themar Theron, leader of the [[OurElvesAreDifferent Blood Elves]], says the following quote when you click on him: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Do not. Touch. THE HAIR!!!]].
** And speaking of Blood Elves, one of the /flirt quotes from the male Blood Elf PC has him interrupting himself:
---> "Hey, why don't you come over here and-- ''Watch'' the hair!!"
* Don Flamenco from ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' has a battle quote telling you not to touch his hair. In the Wii version, [[spoiler:it's a wig you can punch off him, which [[TurnsRed angers the Don]]]].
* Aoba of ''VisualNovel/DramaticalMurder'' doesn't like having his hair touched because it's unusually sensitive, which is why he lets it grow long without cutting it often.
* Axios of ''VideoGame/GloryOfHeracles'' for DS will sometimes say "Not the hair!" when being attacked.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'': Dartrix are quite fussy about their hair (or the plumage that resembles it), and have been known to stop in the middle of battle to tend to it. Touch a Dartrix's hair in Pokemon Refresh and it will look ''ridiculously'' offended, [[http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/176/775/0e9.gif like so]].
** Several other Pokemon also don't like being touched on the hair or the head in Pokemon Amie/Refresh.
* Starting with ''VideoGame/NarutoUltimateNinjaStorm 4'', Hinata's sister Hanabi is shown to have a complex about her hair getting messy.
* In an example where the character's BerserkButton involves ''someone else's'' hair being touched, Flamberge from ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' does ''not'' like it when others harm "a single blue hair on [[[BigSisterInstinct her sister Francisca's]]] perfect head".

* Musashi/Jessie in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''. It rarely comes up, but when it does, she gets ''dangerous''.

* Motor Ed's EstablishingCharacterMoment in WesternAnimation/KimPossible is him getting his mullet professionally done, only to throw a fit when the stylist cuts it a fraction of an inch. His StartOfDarkness, in fact, started when an employer told him he had to cut his hair - [[DisproportionateRetribution causing him to jump ship from being an engineer to become ax supervillain instead.]]
---> '''Motor Ed:'''' You don't clip the lion's mane while he roars! [[VerbalTic Seriously!]]

* Motor Ed's EstablishingCharacterMoment in WesternAnimation/KimPossible is him getting his mullet professionally done, only to throw a fit when the stylist cuts it a fraction of an inch. His StartOfDarkness, in fact, started when an employer told him he had to cut his hair - [[DisproportionateRetribution causing him to jump ship from being an engineer to become ax supervillain instead.]]
---> '''Motor Ed:'''' You don't clip the lion's mane while he roars! [[VerbalTic Seriously!]]

* Zak from ''Series/GhostAdventures'' has expressed this several times when his hair and it being touched or even the suggestion that it be messed with, such as the time they went to Fort Chaffee and saw the chair where Elvis had his head buzzed when he joined the Army and they jokingly suggested Zak do the same. His response was a NoJustNoReaction.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Yang Xiao Long has a long golden mane that is carefully styled in an asymmetrical way to [[FlamingHair look like fire]]. If Yang's hair is damaged in battle, her eyes [[TurnsRed turn red]] and her BerserkButton explodes. She punched Junior through a [[DestinationDefenestration window]] for grabbing a handful of it and blasted an [[BearsAreBadNews Ursa]] to death for cutting a single strand. During Volume 4 where [[spoiler:her father Taiyang is trying to get Yang back on her feet following the traumatic end of Volume 3 when she lost her arm]], Taiyang mentions that Yang first manifested her Semblance when she got her first haircut. This has lessened over the series as Yang [[TameHisAnger got a grip on her temper]], but never fully goes away, as a sleazy man trying to touch it learns the hard way when she [[TranquilFury very calmly]] punches him clear out of the building.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Yang Xiao Long has a long golden mane that is carefully styled in an asymmetrical way to [[FlamingHair look like fire]]. If Yang's hair is damaged in battle, her eyes [[TurnsRed turn red]] and her BerserkButton explodes. She punched Junior through a [[DestinationDefenestration window]] for grabbing a handful of it and blasted an [[BearsAreBadNews Ursa]] to death for cutting a single strand. During Volume 4 where [[spoiler:her father Taiyang is trying to get Yang back on her feet following the traumatic end of Volume 3 when she lost her arm]], Taiyang mentions that Yang first manifested her Semblance when she got her first haircut.

--->'''Jessie:''' Prepare for trouble and make it double!\\
'''James:''' She used to have hair, but now it's stubble!

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' pilot "Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins" has Bubbles going postal on Fuzzy after his meat gun turns one of her pigtails into a chicken leg.

** [[BlindingBangs Lee Kanker]] seems to have shades of this attitude towards her hair--she shoves Eddy away from her in "Look into my Eds" when he tries to move her bangs out of her eyes, and if she gets wet/injured/disheveled in any kind of way, she frequently asks, "Does my hair look okay?"

* Matt from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' says this in a throwaway line. Like a lot of stuff in the dub, it sort of disappears into the ether after that.

* ''Webcomic/{{Matchu}}'' has Amber, who is sick and tired of people telling her to donate her [[RapunzelHair incredibly long hair]].

* Empress Elisabeth of Austria was extremely proud of her famously long and beautiful RapunzelHair, and allowed nobody but her court hairdresser to handle it, and even then only with gloves. The empress intensely disliked any of the natural effects of hairstyling (such as fallen hairs) and demanded that her hairdresser show her the comb with the fallen hairs after every brushing, and she would become so upset and angry when she saw them that her hairdresser began stealthily hiding them under her apron to protect herself from the empress' wrath.

* Charles Xavier in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' uses this trope. This is an InJoke to fans, since anyone who is familiar with the series knows that [[BaldOfAwesome he goes completely bald]]. Xavier uses the Cerebro prototype for the first time, and Hank struggles with fitting the electrodes on his head.

** Talking bad about his hair is such a BerserkButton to Josuke that, when Rohan Kishibe repeatedly mocked it, Josuke became ''[[BlindedByRage literally blind with rage]]'' and was [[NoSell complete immune]] to Rohan's Stand ability, which at that point trapped it's victim through their vision.

* Josuke Higashikata, protagonist of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', is normally a dorkily cute NiceGuy... but say ''anything'' negative about his pompadour and you're in for a world of hurt. Later on it's revealed why this is such a sensitive issue for him: when he was a child he got deathly ill and on the way to the hospital his mother's car got stuck in the snow. Suddenly a young man with a pompadour showed up and helped free the car; as a result, Josuke wears his hair that way in honor of his mysterious savior, and takes any slights against it as slights against the man who saved his life.